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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the Story Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award
Named a Best Book of the Year by Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Esquire, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews
A new collection―about loss, alienation, aging, and the…
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Yiyun Li wrote the short stories in Wednesday’s Child over fourteen years in which her life underwent many turbulent times and losses. Yet her stories carry a generous humor with them despite the difficult situations her characters face. That genuine humor and the author’s magical prose make each story one a reader wants to inhabit.
Li is a master of perspective, not only in the literary craft sense, but in the ability to give us characters so familiar as to feel real and yet surprising in their perspectives on life. Any fan of Elizabeth McCracken’s stories should enjoy those in…
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